Theological Theses · §1659 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

All Roman doctors confess that the first man was not liable to death before sin

All the teachers of the Roman Church admit that the first man, before he sinned, was not subject to death as we all now are, but was in some sense immortal.

Against the Pelagians they hold by common consent that the necessity of dying which now lies on us arose from sin, and would have had no place if man had remained in his original integrity.

Latin

I. Primum hominem, antequam peccaret, non fuisse morti obnoxium; quemadmodum jam sumus omnes, sed aliquo sensu immortalem, res est apud omnes Doctores Ecclesiae Romanae confessa. Nam communi consensu tuentur adversus Pelagianos necessitatem moriendi, quae jam nobis incumbit, ex peccato ortum habuisse; nec fuisse locum habituram, si homo in primaeva illa integritate permansisset.

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